This morning I was walking down the sidewalk and a homeless punk 20-something was walking towards me with a pitbull on a leash. When we got within 5' of each other suddenly raised his fist and leaped at me to punch me in the face. I jumped away and covered my head and froze like a bitch. He just walked right by me like nothing happened, while I was stunned with adrenaline pumping through my veins.
After the confusion and anger subsided I was actually grateful, this experience showed me that no matter how Veeky Forums I get I'm still a pussy. I want to train my courage the way I've trained in the gym, so I've decided to take up a martial art. Any opinions? I'm looking at BJJ and Krav Maga (from a proper licensed Krav gym, not a McDojo).
He's just a shitty crusty. Let him ruin his life in his own way.
If realizing that you're a mortal human is really so traumatizing for you, just carry a gun like the rest of the adult male community.
Samuel Cruz
If he had a pitbull no matter how much shit you knew you'd have reacted the same. Those things are guns on a leash
Hudson Brooks
Any decent combat sport where you do drills and learn to spare correctly will teach you that getting hit is not a big deal usually - unless obviously some heavyweight boxing monster is mad at you at fullforce punch your face.
Nolan Allen
I'm not traumatized, I'm actually grateful like I said. Chaos manifested itself right in front of me and said "psst, here's something for you to work on."
I can't carry a gun because Commiefornia (but I do keep on at home). I'm unsure what the knife laws are, I'll look.
My first thought after he passed was that if we started fighting that dog would've ripped chunks of meat off me. A gun would be ideal, but see the above comment.
I did a tiny bit of boxing overseas once and found that the repeated head trauma wasn't worth the price. That's why I'm looking at martial arts that don't include massive amounts of blows to the head.
Justin Bailey
Learn kendo. I stared 5 years ago with just a broomstick in my house yard. Now no-one dares to even look at my dakimakura.
Chase Martin
h-hontoni?!
Grayson Thompson
You don't even to learn a martial art you need to learn how to throw a perfect right hook or overhead right just keep training that one punch till you perfect it then boom you got a right that will drop 99 percent of the average population on the first hit
Robert Foster
Pipe bomb
Luis Edwards
Not a bad idea tbqh. Doesn't fix the part about me being a pussy though, I want to become more courageous.
Good idea, even better next time someone gets in my face I'll blow us both up with a suicide vest that'll show them
Jacob Richardson
>Krav Maga >getting fined several $100,000 and going to jail because you stabbed a worthless subhuman in the gonads
Xavier Collins
Start with boxing OP
Hunter Martinez
Look up Kyokushinkai. It is a bare-knuckle martial art, blows to the head with your fist are not allowed but kicks to the head are, it's pretty brutal and it will condition you to endure pain as well as make your fists ready to break jaws. Puzdianowski used to train it.
Camden Stewart
Similar thing happened to me last year, with a wildly different outcome.
My city had a bad homeless problem some time ago, which got mostly cleaned up and then got bad again. Also, the normal standard for assault is enough to put a dog down; one strike and you're out, sorry & too bad if your dog got hurt while attacking someone
Homeless guy let his dog loose on me while I walking in the city. I somehow caught the dog's collar midleap, knifed it, and then hit the homeless guy
It's actually a rather sad problem where I live. There's a lot of people that poorly train their dogs and cry when the inevitable happens after.
Ayden Jones
bro i know exactly what you mean! i experienced something like that, then decided to do something about it, already being above 100kg bodyweight at the moment. i would suggest ju jitsu for grabling, and kick boxing or any other form of striking sport. It REALLY helps to become comfortable with violence, and know that you are not made of glass and wont crack when punched in the face. i now work security and to be honest theres still some situation that scare me, but at the same i i know im twice as calm about the situation as everybody else. i highly recommend getting familiar and "used to" violence. it makes the man. also, check og the golden one on youtube and become a true alpha who rightfully discriminates the weak.
Sebastian Cruz
just carry a gun faggot
Adrian Wood
ps in my country, denmark, we dont carry, so violence and danger heavily is eather knifes or knuckles, mostly knuckles in the hillbilly side of the country i live in! fuck immigrants though
Leo Rodriguez
phaggot
Alexander Williams
>martial arts that don't include massive amounts of blows to the head. Lmfao, I don't get your logic there. You're avoiding something which scares you because of the sheer brutality, but in fact is actually something you're searching for.
What do you faggot expect? Carry a fucking bamboo stick and take him out with aikido skills? Faggot, punch him til he faints.
John Moore
Calm down edgelord, he said he doesnt want head trauma.
Sebastian Taylor
You should do a martial art that you can spar in. Nothing you learn in the smash-ur-balls dojo will matter if you freeze up whenever somebody runs up to you. The closest thing you can get to that is the full throttle adrenaline rush you get from competing. That art, in particular, is BJJ
I remember someone doing something similar to me when I was jogging one day. I was just jogging through the same area I normally do, and some guy pointed at me and said "attack" to his german shepherd. When it got too close I pulled out my gun and shot it, and the guy started freaking out saying he was just kidding and the dog wasn't going to hurt me.
Nigger I like animals and have 3 dogs, but you don't joke around with that shit unless you want your doggo killed.
Leo Diaz
Be humble, aware and alert. Greet hostility with patience and quell hatred with compassion.
More of fighting is settled outside of violence, and combat is determined before blows are dealt.
Prevent violence in every way you can, and you will win all your battles.
After all, any battle where you walk away with your life, not in jail, not creating enemies, not hurting yourself or others, is a victory.
Carter Adams
Read 'The Gift of Fear' by Gavin DeBecker and 'Facing Violence' by Rory Miller. Learn a bit of a few different martial arts but don't be afraid to specialise, since the less options you have to choose from in the first quarter second of the fight the better it makes sense to have uneven training to a degree, and it's also easier lifestyle wise. Both your choices would be solid investments of your time, but really anything will work if well researched and trained with aliveness.
Noah Hughes
Ha! This was similar to how i got into boxing and muay thai. >bar fight breaks out >friends jump in >whatdoido.jpg >just freeze into place and watch the whole thing unravel next week got me a boxing gym membership and afterwards got into muay thai. Been in it for a year now, best decision of my life. Do it|
Leo Wood
Should have killed him too desu
Leo Powell
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Jordan Allen
Just use your superior funds and get a gun / tazer
Jaxon Ward
Sparring is overrated since no real fight will ever look like sparring. It's like training in checkers for a chess match.
If you're a ring fighter, sparring is obligatory, though, since you can simulate a ring match pretty good.
Josiah Morgan
I repeat: Sparring is not, and will never be, a real fight. The hormonal response is completely different.
Jason Lewis
>i want to be more courageous you must fly to south-africa and walk to spain from there.
Hudson Myers
the only material I have ever found that shows SOME way to defend against the dog (not the usual 'run bro' shit) if anyone's interested in full book (judo) magnet:?xt=urn:btih:39DA283C30B806F7BD0D510E888B1EBFC4D03004&dn=Judo%20Self-Taught%20in%20Pictures&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2fglotorrents.pw%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fzer0day.to%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce
Cooper Morgan
What the fuck is a staccato blow?
Dominic Martin
Not even gonna read the replies of heroic internet warriors but theres litterally nothing you could do because he had a pitbull. Well, except take a photo and call the cops.
Luke Taylor
the book is from 1952, interesting vocabulary, though, in this context it refers to the distance hand travels, in other words 'a short blow with the edge of your palm'